After receiving only four responses to the seventy letters he sent out asking “What the Negroes Can Do To Better Themselves in Peoria,” the Peoria Journal Star‘s Bill Conver was prompted to conduct a post-mortem on why his inquiry failed.
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After receiving only four responses to the seventy letters he sent out asking “What the Negroes Can Do To Better Themselves in Peoria,” the Peoria Journal Star‘s Bill Conver was prompted to conduct a post-mortem on why his inquiry failed.
Bill Conver, "Story Of A Failure...Why Didn't Our Negros Answer?," Peoria Journal Star, Nov. 9, 1960.